Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

by Joe Biden

Nelson Rockefeller was in office for only two years but quickly soured. “I go to funerals,” he complained. “I go to earthquakes.”

I'd completely forgotten he was anyone's VP, let alone Ford's.

U.S. military commander in charge of the Middle East, General Lloyd Austin. Austin was the heartbeat of Operation Inherent Resolve, our administration’s six-month-old campaign to destroy ISIL.

The act of consoling had always made me feel a little better, and I was hungry to feel better.